Shifty-Eyed Evader or Unblinking Intimidator?

Eye contact

I can be the unblinking listener, but rarely the Intimidator. I just like looking at someone when they are speaking and I also like to look at someone in the eyes when I am speaking to them. It shows that you are paying attention to them either way. I am not intimidating at all.

Close your eyes and try thinking about nothing, what happens?

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I feel my eyelids flutter, I hear my inner voice saying “think of nothing, think of blackness”. I hear and feel my blood flowing in my neck and my brain feels like it’s swelling up. My stomach is rumbling and gurgling. There is everything and anything going on in my body and hence in my mind rather than nothing. Even when I turn off the t.v at night and close my eyes, I never think of nothing when I fall asleep. My brain just falls asleep and then dreams a lot. I find that it is when I try to think of nothing that my brain goes into hyper-drive and when I am simply relaxing that is when my brain is calm and it feels like my brain is thinking of nothing even though it isn’t really.

I have tried meditation and I fall asleep but I do have this uncanny ability to fall asleep anytime and anywhere, so I don’t know if that has any relevance to the question. It does seem that I can at least easily tune out all the noise and sleep, regardless of the stress and problems I may be experiencing at the moment. It is nice to know that I always have sleep available to me to escape to when I feel overwhelmed by daily life. I like my little blessing.

Debt Ceiling Debate Sows Fear Among Small Business Owners

The two scariest thing to this whole debt ceiling/de­ficit reduction debacle are number 1, the two are not tied to each other but many people think that they are, so misinforma­tion is rampant. Secondly, we have historical data to lead us out of this mess of a depression­. The Great Depression offers a blueprint of what to do and what not to do and our government has chosen what not to do as a course of action. That is what I mean by scary, how do you explain your decisions when there is a record that simply shows that you have made the wrong choices to fix a huge problem? We have had the answers all along, when we saw that once again, deregulati­on was a huge mistake, the congress still wants to do away with any type of financial regulation­s President Obama signed into law. How do you explain that? Austerity measures failed in 1937 and they are failing now, why put us through that again? It’s in the history books!
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Democrats Outline Path To Passage For Debt Deal

This needn’t be so painful, when we were all paying Clinton era tax rates, there weren’t protests in the streets because the people felt their tax burden too heavy. Letting the Bush tax rates expire is responsibl­e fiscal policy and not too onerous. Scaling down the military industrial complex would be an excellent place to start with savings. I for one am willing to pay for federal government services such as the E.P.A, the F.D.A, the F.A.A, any regulatory agency that protects my family from poor water, air and food quality is worth it. I agree that medicare and medicaid need to be looked at but adopting a single payer system with everyone under its coverage umbrella would do so much in regards to long term savings. All this brouhaha is over the choice of what version of America you want to live in. Personally I like the one where we are all in this together and not to version of kill or be killed.
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Tea Party Shows Clout In Debt Ceiling Debate

The ignorance put forth by many of the tea party activists is astounding­. They obviously do not understand the bigger picture, what makes me nervous is they created a situation where major companies and big investors are making contingenc­y plans to do investing and expansion elsewhere. The GOP has been saying that because of President Obama, the business sector wasn’t expanding and hiring because they were nervous about uncertain tax codes. We all know that was a blatant lie, companies weren’t hiring because of little to no demand for goods and services. Ironically the GOP and tea party have themselves created such an unsafe environmen­t for business with their refusal to simply lift the debt ceiling. Once companies and investors research alternate venues for investment and expansion opportunit­ies you can’t undo that. We may have gone past the point of no return all because of the GOP and their tea party. I hope that they are proud of their wrecking of the U.S economy.
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Why is there evil in the world?

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One of the questions for the ages. First thought was I don’t know.Then I got an epiphany, evil only resides in the realm of man, not in mother nature. Trees, birds, insects and animals aren’t evil. They co-exist in a balanced natural world. It would still be balanced and natural if the realm of man did not intrude so much upon it. We are the carriers of evil, it is within us and thankfully we, for the most part, do not even acknowledge its existence within us. However, when fear, hate and intolerance fill our hearts and mind, evil is given an ample playground within us to grow. We are capable of so much good and so much bad. Evil actions are intentional and designed to inflict pain on others,there are many things thrown at us in nature that cause us various forms of pain, but those events were never intentional, aimed at us. Therefore they can’t be evil. Evil is only in our human world, in our hearts, mind and psyche. Until the day the humans no longer exist on this planet, evil will walk this earth. The only hope that might exorcise evil from mankind would be for everyone to voluntarily come into acceptance of the other. Without fear, hate and intolerance, evil can’t exist.

I don’t know if I answered the question correctly but I think the direct answer to the why part is that without evil there wouldn’t be good? I think I’m thinking of the question in the same way as I think of happiness. There has to be sadness for there to be happiness or you wouldn’t know the difference. I’m not quite sure that if you didn’t have evil you wouldn’t know good. I still think that evil is dependent on the emotions of fear, hate and intolerance. Once you banish those emotions, evil hasn’t a leg to stand on.